LateRooms.com

LateRooms.com
Available in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese
Headquarters The Peninsula Building, Manchester, United Kingdom
No. of locations Manchester, London, Curitiba
Industry Travel
Products Hotels and accommodation
Parent Enterprises UK Ltd
Website laterooms.com
Launched 1999

LateRooms.com is a hotel reservations website providing discounted accommodation throughout the UK, Europe and the rest of the world.

LateRooms.com's website reports that it offers a choice of over 200,000 hotels.[1]

Company history

LateRooms.com was launched in Salford, Greater Manchester, in 1999 by brothers Steven, Paul, Tony Walsh and Steve Burton. The site originally started as a simple directory listing hotels, but in 2002 moved to enable users to book hotels online (some hotels require a telephone booking through LateRooms.com). In December 2006, the company was bought by First Choice Holidays plc in a deal worth between £108 million and £120 million.[2] September 2007 saw First Choice Holidays plc merge with TUI Travel plc to form the TUI Travel Group.[3]

In 2010 LateRooms.com moved to a new head office at The Peninsula building in Manchester, along with sister companies AsiaRooms.com and Hotels-London.co.uk.[4]

In May 2015 TUI announced a restructure of all of its brands and that Laterooms would be sold off[5]

In October 2015, Cox & Kings acquired LateRooms.com for £8.5 million (approx Rs.85 crore)[6][7] However In March 2016, it sold 100% of LateRooms Ltd (UK) (‘LateRooms’) to Enterprises UK Ltd. (‘Malvern’) for GBP 20 million.

References

  1. ↑ "LateRooms.com". LateRooms.com. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
  2. ↑ "First Choice buys LateRooms". Reuters (23 December 2006). 23 December 2006. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
  3. ↑ Simon, Lambert. "Tui and First Choice to merge". This Is Money (19 March 2007). Retrieved 4 May 2011.
  4. ↑ "Laterooms checks in to Peninsula". Place North West (22 July 2010). Retrieved 4 May 2011.
  5. ↑ http://www.ttgdigital.com/news/tui-to-sell-off-laterooms/4696153.article
  6. ↑ "Cox & Kings acquires LateRooms from TUI Group for Rs 85 crore". The Economic Times. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  7. ↑ "Cox & Kings buys LateRooms for Rs. 85 crore". The Hindu Business Line. Retrieved 14 October 2015.

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